Strand Description
Phonological Awareness
Students learn to blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
Letter Sounds
Students learn to say the most common sound for printed letters.
Letter Writing
Students learn the correct way to write letters.
Sounding Out
Students put everything they have learned so far together, so that they can take a regular word in print, such as sat, produce the letter-sound pattern, sssaaat, and blend to produce the word, sat. For the first time, they read words.
Word-Form Recognition
Students take a regular word in print and say it without sounding out aloud
Irregular Words
Students learn to read high-frequency irregular words such as the and was by sight.
Reading Connected Text
Students learn to read their first sentence-long stories.
Letter Combinations
Students learn to say the most common sounds for letter combinations such as sh and oa and correctly decode VCe words.
Irregular Words II
Students expand the set of high-frequency irregular words that they can read by sight.
Advanced Phonics
Students learn to read word families, compound words, contractions, double-letter words, silent-letter words, -ed words, and -s words.
salamonegt22 on 04 Nov 15A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
